Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2017
Co-founder & CEO
IEX Group
Brad Katsuyama is the Co-founder and CEO of IEX, America’s newest stock exchange. IEX was prominently featured in the Michael Lewis best-seller Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, in which Brad was the lead protagonist in discovering and exposing the pernicious relationship between national stock exchanges and certain high-speed traders. Before co-founding IEX, Brad held a series of management positions at the Royal Bank of Canada, most recently as Global Head of Electronic Sales and Trading, overseeing business lines in Canada, the US and Europe. He was named to both Fortune and Crain's 40 Under 40 lists, won the Adam Smith Prize at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, and is an Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Brad has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, 60 Minutes, CNN and BBC, and has been the cover story for several magazines, including the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg Markets.
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